TAKES PLACE AFTER THE GIANT WAR AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

PROLOGUE

3RD POV

THRONE ROOM, OLYMPUS

The seven and Nico, Thalia and Reyna were standing in front of the gods awaiting their awards for the war. Zeus King of Olympus spoke first "heroes today we mark the day when Gaia was defeated and now it is time to award the heroes for their brave efforts. We will award the seven and Thalia, Nico and Reyna with immortality and a wish of their own choice"

"The seven of the prophesy and Thalia, Nico and Reyna step forward"

The mentioned demigods stepped forward and each of them was hit with a mixture of beams for each god hit them and forced them to their knees except for Percy and Jason.

The newly immortal demigods looked around and found their senses sharpened and their physical attributes got improved.

Zeus then said now time for the gifts.

Jason stepped forward and said "I want to become pontifex maximus for the gods and build new shrines for the minor gods that have been ignored"

The gods thinking that this was a fair request granted it

Next came frank "hazel and I want to use our wishes to end our curses"

The gods again granted this request

after that, it was the chance of piper" I just want to live my life without any more prophesies"

The gods granted this request as it was easy enough

Annabeth "I just want to redesign Olympus again and need to live with peace at camp half-blood"

Gods though unsure granted this request

Finally, it was Percy's chance" I want to get another wish as the wish you gods swore earlier was not fulfilled. For my first wish I would like to free all the peaceful titans that you did not free the first time and for my second wish I demand that you give Hades and Hestia their respective thrones back as they are the eldest children of Kronos and deserve such respect and place."

As Percy was stating his wishes his eye caught Hecate, the goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy staring at him in disbelief. He thought about it but dismissed it as her reaction to his wishes.

All the god looked guilty when Percy mentioned his first wish but nodded accordingly and 2 thrones rose from the ground one was pearl white with small flames dancing on it gave the feeling of warmth and home. The other throne, however, was made of bones but not just any bones, it was made of black colored bones that oozed the darkness, death and the foreboding feeling of terror. Both Hestia and Hades came up to Percy to thank him even though Hestia tightly hugged him while Hades only gave him a pat on the back before both going to sit in their respective throne.

Soon after Zeus thundered (A/N: just had to do it)"meeting dismissed".

TIMESKIP TO A FEW MONTHS LATER

It was a normal day at camp. Percy and Annabeth were sitting at the beach quietly just taking in the scene in front of them of the sun setting and the reflections on the water body.

Suddenly there was a growl heard from Thalia's pine. They raced to the pine tree and what they saw made their blood cold, there was an army of monsters in front of the camp. Hellhounds, empousei, Laistrygonian Giants, you name it the monster was there.

Just then the conch horn blew 4 times signaling an attack on the camp. Every demigod came running up to the borders of the camp. They had the same expression as Percy and Annabeth. Their eyes went wide with fear and also if you look closely you could see a glint for blood, for battle in their eyes. Percy as the unofficial leader for camp half-blood turned around. He was also afraid but for these people, his family he had to stay strong.

"Today my friends, this is a battle for our life, for our home. A home where we have lived for a long time in peace. There may have been ups and downs but it is our home nonetheless. 'WE WILL NOT LOSE THIS BATTLE. FOR CAMP HALF-BLOOD'!".The crowd was energized. Their leader had taken up arms and so will they.

Percy bent down to his wise girl and spoke in her ear "see you on the other side wise girl" and quickly stole a peck on the lips from her. He didn't know that this will be the last time he kissed his wise girl.

With a battle cry, Percy and all the demigods went into battle. They slashed, kicked and in case of Ares kids strangled the monsters.

In between of fighting a dracanae managed to creep up to Percy. As Percy was busy fighting, he didn't notice it. As the dracanae was about to plunge its sword in Percy. A black and gold sword stabbed the monster in the gut and dissolving it. As Percy finished battling the monsters he turned around to see his first 'teacher' friend in the camp the infamous 'Luke Castellan'. Percy was bewildered to see Luke alive and well and grinning like a Cheshire cat in front of him. Luke with a smirk said "are you going to just stand there and look at me, Jackson or are u still afraid to fight"

Percy snapping out of his daze started killing monsters left and right. After a few minutes, all that was left was golden dust.

As the battle ended everyone started coming toward Luke and Percy to see what kind of reaction Percy would have. Percy stopping his battle went and game a tight hug to Luke .but before he could give him a hug Annabeth ran to Luke as if Luke didn't betray the gods or poison Percy or didn't fight nor threaten him. When Annabeth finally let Luke go from the hug she clung to him as she was his girlfriend and not Percy's girlfriend of 3 yrs. After Annabeth hugged Luke Percy came and hugged him and whispered in his ear "you are forgiven Luke, remember Luke you are forgiven"

As the camp saw Percy, their leader accept Luke they also started to go to him and started to accept or say hello or in case of his half-brother tightly hug if sensing the questions of everybody Luke shouted "I will answer ALL questions during the bonfire"

Everybody now happy went to their respective work and just waited till the bonfire. As Chiron saw Luke he trotted over to Luke and with cautiousness but when he saw that he was of no danger embraced he like a father would to a son who has come home after a long time.

After a few words from Chiron and Percy Luke went to his cabin to meet his brothers and sister deciding to spend his time with them until dinner.

Time Skip

As the time for bonfire rolled by every person was dying with curiosity about how Luke castellan came back from the dinner finished every person in the dining pavilion raced to the bonfire to hear about the story of Luke.

But Luke was coming ever so slowly with Percy and Annabeth each person flanking a side of his.

When Luke finally reached the stage he went up and started his tale "so we all remember when I stabbed myself to stop Kronos from rising and defeating the gods. Well after I was dead, Thanatos came to take my soul away as I waited for judgment in the underworld I saw a lady made of mud and dirt but she was flickering in and out of existence. I first thought that it was a show of light and paid no heed to it. As I was escorted to the judges I was stopped and taken out of the line. I heard muttering in a strange language but I was only able to understand some part of it like 'power…grant…..life…Luke….'when the voice finally stopped speaking a rapid pain shot through me and I touched my head. Thinking that my hand will pass through like it did every time, I did but this time my hand stopped at the side of my head. Then the lady that was covered in mud and dirt finally came to me and introduced herself she said that she was Gaia and she was the mother of Kronos and she wanted me to help her take over the earth and that I will become the commander of her army and will help defeat the brat, Percy Jackson. After the war, I immediately said no then she threw me into Tartarus and had her sons treat me like dirt ordering me around and torturing me. She would come around often asking me to reconsider but I would always decline. Then when she started attacking u I escaped from their prison and started walking around Tartarus and thinking of escaping the way I found Iapetus or as u would know him bob. I also discovered Damasen's hut. Damasen offered me home and had me scout for monsters and stuff but when Percy and Annabeth came I fled from there and started roaming here and there. Just before the gates were about to be closed I slipped in them and told them that I joined them and they let me up. Since then I have been roaming here and there, finally decided to come back and ask for forgiveness but when I came here lo and behold an attack was going on here and I helped out and from there u probably know"

As Luke was telling his story everyone could see that he was sincerely sorry and just wanted to be accepted by his family. Luke saw in everyone's eyes that he had been forgiven and he couldn't help but let a smile stretch on his face.

During the story, Luke's constantly flicked to a grey-eyed blonde haired girl. As soon as his eyes landed on her's she would both blush and look down like she was not dating a certain individual. Whenever their eyes would meet, they could sense a warm feeling in there chest grow.

The certain individual that the girl was dating was so engrossed that he was oblivious to this exchange taking place.

As soon as the story was finished anyone went up to Luke and hugged him and welcomed him back. The last person to go hug Luke was Percy. As Percy hugged him goodnight, he walked away from him thinking that it will be good to have Luke back.

OH, how wrong he thought.

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